Board Thread:Pokémon Help/@comment-31398341-20171026040947/@comment-27535813-20180203115929

Agkvsharold wrote: Milotic moveset:mirror coat,recover,ice beam,hidden power steel

nature: modest

EV spread:200 hp,152 sp.atk,158 sp.def

good for sweeping while being really tanky and is instead,a threat to special sweepers,especially grass and electric,except for dark

Basically what you're saying with those EVs: lets have more power but less bulk

then you realise you need more bulk

and then you realise when you need more bulk you have less power.

even then, with 152 EVs investment it's not going to do much after a modest boost(it only hits 301 Sp.Atk with 31 IVs and modest nature). but if you invest more in sp.atk you have lesser bulk...

also ur moveset is whack, mirror coat sounds nice on paper but you're supposed to be tanking so it won't do much in return if you can absorb special attacks. ice beam works I support but HP steel is probably the most confusing one i've ever seen. it doesn't actually help milotic much, you might as well run hydro pump or scald.

in conclusion: milotic is outclassed, competitive(can deter; NOT stop defoggers) and marvel scale(acts as a status absorber; but it doesn't like to get status in the first place) have niche use which is why it deserves a C rank, because it doesn't do much more aside from that. as stated many times, it's outclassed by a lot more better bulky water-types that can actually wall(toxapex, suicune, rotom-wash, alomomola,mantine,mega-slowbro) and in terms of offensive presence while still being relatively bulky(mega-blastoise, primarina, volcanion, mega-swampert).